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To find this article about MN hilarious?

30 replies

QueenoftheAndals · 20/08/2016 20:40

I know this article is few years old but why are people always so surprised that, shock horror, mothers have sex?? Do they just expect us to exchange knitting patterns and talk about the contents of nappies?

Additionally there's this Mumsnet Madness Twitter account, which exists to poke fun at us silly mothers. Obviously some threads on here can be ridiculous but why does MN get singled out?

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SanityClause · 20/08/2016 22:59

I think the actual thread title was something about pouring baby gravy on eggs (arf) so maybe that's another recipe for them?

SpookyPotato · 20/08/2016 23:01

It bugs me when people assume it's all snobby, lentil weaving perfectionists when it really isn't.. A comedian posted on facebook about giving his daughter chocolate milk as a one off treat with the hashtag #don'ttellmumsnet. I was thinking you have us all wrong, most of us can take the piss out of ourselves very well and can have pretty slack standards. It's a total mix and a proper laugh, so it annoys me when people think it's all pearl clutchers!

MooPointCowsOpinion · 20/08/2016 23:09

Seedy underbelly? That implies we have something to be ashamed of. Women having sex after having a child, Jesus fucking christ, call an exorcist.

Written by a man who idolises his own mummy too much and hasn't managed to find a woman who could bare to live with him yet perhaps?

Velvetdarkness · 20/08/2016 23:29

I'm struggling to understand what's seedy about ttc? Or even just having sex for fun? Or are we simply not supposed to talk about or enjoy it?
What a sexist dick.

sleeponeday · 21/08/2016 00:02

I think the thing that tickled me most on that thread was his pronouncement that he wasn't remotely sexist, some of his best friends were women, but, "the problem with over-educated modern mothers is they have babies after having careers, right, and then they treat motherhood as a job, which it's not..." and then he explained that he'd been "lucky enough" to go to Cambridge where he met an unusual number of clever women so, um, us lesser ladies should take his word for it. And then he scoffed at idiots wasting time on MN, despite also claiming that all the Independent office had been positively agog reading MN for days. And so it went on. And on. And on.

Wasn't surprised that he wanted it deleted. He did not come across well.

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